Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.” Our children go to public school systems in Oklahoma, and they see teachers that don’t look like them, don’t reflect who they are as a people. We’ve always been acculturated to believe that the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) or the Indian Health Service or somebody else had better ideas for us than we ourselves had, and so trusting our own thinking . . . is the single most important task. . . Read Noah’s paraphrase of the excerpt. Student Work Wilma Mankiller says that Cherokee children go to public school systems in Oklahoma and see teachers who don’t look like them. Cherokee people have been acculturated to believe that the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Indian Health Service have better ideas for them than they have for themselves. Mankiller says that the single most important task is to get the Cherokee to trust their own thinking. Which mistake did Noah make in his paraphrase?
Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.” President Jefferson conceptualized removal; Jackson gets all the blame for the removal of the Cherokees and the other Southeastern tribes, but Jefferson actually conceptualized the removal. Which statement best paraphrases the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.” Some people will tell you those treaties aren’t valid anymore and they should be ignored simply because they’re old, and obviously . . . that argument makes little sense. There are lots of world documents that are very old and just because they’re old and because of their age doesn’t mean that they’re any less valid. The United States Constitution is very old. Which statement best paraphrases the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.” The Cherokee Nation has had a government for a long, long time. We had a government in this country long before there was a United States government. We had treaties with England even before we had treaties with the colonies, and then later with the United States. Which statement best paraphrases the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.” During this period of time when removal was being discussed, our own people, the Cherokees, became very bitterly divided politically. Part of our people wanted to remain here in the Southeast and throughout the rest of the Southeast and fight to the death for the right to remain in our homeland, and part of our people wanted to go on to Indian Territory, believing that the removal was inevitable, and that we should go on to Indian Territory, what is now Oklahoma, and resettle and rebuild our families and our communities there in Indian Territory. Read how Luis paraphrased the excerpt. Student Work Wilma Mankiller says that during this period of time when removal was discussed, her own people, the Cherokees, became very bitterly divided politically. Some wanted to fight to stay in their territory, but others believed the fight could not be won and they should go on to rebuild their communities in Indian Territory. Which paraphrasing mistake has Luis made?
Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.” So from 1906 and 1907, when Oklahoma became a state, and until 1971, we didn’t elect our own tribal leaders. Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation and some of the other, well they call them Southeastern tribes; by now they were in Indian Territory; our Chiefs were appointed by the President of the United States, and usually for no good purpose. They were appointed so they could sign easements or give away land, or other resources of the tribes. . . . It’s interesting to see how our people began to view leadership during this period of time from 1906-1907 to 1971. They began to see Chiefs of the Cherokees as something external to themselves; a position that only very prominent people who had little connection to the tribe could aspire to or hold. Which sentence best integrates a direct quotation from the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.” . . . John Ross believed in the American judicial system, and he felt that the American judicial system was built on beautiful principles, and that was something that should work for the Cherokees. And so both individual people and the tribe took some of our cases for the preservation of the integrity of the Cherokee Nation through the American judicial system and all the way to the United States Supreme Court and won. Read Jasmine’s paraphrase of the passage. Student Work Wilma Mankiller says that John Ross believed in the American judicial system, and he believed its principles should work for the Cherokees. Some individuals, as well as the tribe, took cases for the preservation of the Cherokee Nation through the American court system and all the way up to the Supreme Court. They won. Which paraphrasing mistake did Jasmine make?
Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.” Some of the impetus for the removal was economic. Cherokee land was good land for growing cotton, was good land for growing tobacco, and also some gold had been discovered within the Cherokee Nation, and then there were also a number of corporations and individuals who wanted our land, so all those were factors in the pressure for removal. Read Mea’s paraphrase of the excerpt. Student Work Some of the reasons for the Cherokee removal were economic. The land owned by the Cherokee Nation was fertile and held valuable resources, and many people wanted it. Which paraphrasing mistake has Mea made?
Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.” What’s interesting to me in looking—I like history a lot, and looking at old historical documents—is to see that in the 1840s there was still a significant number, not the majority or anywhere near the majority, but there were a significant number of people in this country that were still questioning whether Indians were human, or whether Indians had souls, when we and many other people like our tribe had been running our own governments for a long, long time. Which sentence best integrates a direct quotation from the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.” And so there were bitter internal divisions among our people during that period of time, that period of discussion. We had non-Indian friends throughout the South who helped us, who took up our cause and tried to protect the Cherokees and work with us. Some of our friends spent time in jail . . . Which is the best paraphrase of the excerpt?
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